Fabian is one of Orsino's servants. He aids Maria and Sir Toby in their plan to embarrass Malvolio. Fabian plans to also embarrass Sir Andrew by writing a letter to Viola/Cesario to fight. Fabian is one of the guys who kind of just listens to what people say and he laughs at their jokes but he doesn't really add anything in. He has a lot of lines but doesn't seem to have any real character to him. That might be the point though, saying that tag-alongs are forgettable. Fabian keeps to himself for most of the time like previously mentioned, however he appears so much in the story but he doesn't have much to him. He is a completely bland person. Fabian likes to normally follow people around not very initiative. Quotations: "There is no way but this, Sir Andrew." [1] "Nay, I’ll come. If I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to death with melancholy." [2] -If you don't know what melancholy means use this link: wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn " Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot."
- " Good madam, hear me speak, And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come Taint the condition of this present hour, Which I have wonder’d at. In hope it shall not, Most freely I confess, myself and Toby Set this device against Malvolio here, Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts We had conceived against him. Maria writ The letter at Sir Toby’s great importance, In recompense whereof he hath married her. How with a sportful malice it was followed, May rather pluck on laughter than revenge, If that the injuries be justly weighed That have on both sides passed." [3] - This quote describes Sir Toby and Maria's marriage.
Fabian is one of Orsino's servants. He aids Maria and Sir Toby in their plan to embarrass Malvolio.
Fabian plans to also embarrass Sir Andrew by writing a letter to Viola/Cesario to fight. Fabian is one of the guys who kind of just listens to what people say and he laughs at their jokes but he doesn't really add anything in. He has a lot of lines but doesn't seem to have any real character to him. That might be the point though, saying that tag-alongs are forgettable. Fabian keeps to himself for most of the time like previously mentioned, however he appears so much in the story but he doesn't have much to him. He is a completely bland person. Fabian likes to normally follow people around not very initiative.
Quotations:
"There is no way but this, Sir Andrew." [1]
"Nay, I’ll come. If I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to death with melancholy." [2]
-If you don't know what melancholy means use this link: wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
" Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot."
- " Good madam, hear me speak,
And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come
Taint the condition of this present hour,
Which I have wonder’d at. In hope it shall not,
Most freely I confess, myself and Toby
Set this device against Malvolio here,
Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
We had conceived against him. Maria writ
The letter at Sir Toby’s great importance,
In recompense whereof he hath married her.
How with a sportful malice it was followed,
May rather pluck on laughter than revenge,
If that the injuries be justly weighed
That have on both sides passed." [3]
- This quote describes Sir Toby and Maria's marriage.
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